I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of high standards and excellence in a team's composition and work environment.
Jack Welch's quote highlights the necessity of transforming the standard practices within an organization to achieve excellence. He advocates for surrounding oneself with top talent and ensuring that the surrounding environment fosters a culture of high performance, suggesting that to attain exceptional results, both the people and the conditions must be of the highest quality.
In practice
In a corporate training session on leadership styles.
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther improvement as may one day make ours vie with - and exceed - theirs.
Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
American influence in the world depends on the ability to act with real capacity and set an example that others will want to follow. This all takes resources.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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